Education

Even after plans for a new Alki Elementary were redesigned to add parking, the project is caught in another appeal alleging there still isn't enough proposed parking. The delays triggered by the appeals have cost the school district at least $3 million so far.

On Monday, the Seattle City Council met for a relatively light legislative session on policy substance. However, councilmembers approved a new Central District landmark...

Last week, the Seattle school board voted to proceed with a plan that could close 20 or more public schools across the city. The plan would worsen the district’s budget woes, student learning outcomes, enrollment decline, racial inequities, and undermine efforts to add missing middle housing and create 15-minute neighborhoods.

Missing infrastructure and a high crossing guard vacancy rate hamper Seattle students' ability to walk or bike to school Active transportation, which includes any kind...

When voters overwhelmingly passed the most recent update to Seattle's public library levy in 2019, expanded hours at all 26 neighborhood branch libraries was...

At the beginning of the 2020 legislative session, Senator Joe Nguyen made a clarion call for going big. "A short session is not an...

A plan to dramatically expand Seattle's school zone speed enforcement program hit a snag this week. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) told a...

Of all the unexpected systems that the pandemic has laid bare, the crisis has shown childcare to be uniquely scattered and broken. By closing...